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Samsung UBD-M8500/ZA Blu-Ray Player (2017)

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Easy Entertainment with a Seamless UI

All your content, accessible from one place. Samsung's simple, intuitive SmartHub user interface gives you quick access to key menu features without having to go back to the home screen while playing a disc**.

Enjoy Studio-Quality Sound

Experience professional studio quality sound at home. HD Audio preserves the quality and richness of the original sound through 192 kHz/24bit without down sampling. The UBD-M8500 also support Dolby Atmos and DTS:X audio formats.

OneRemote Replaces Many

Control most functions of the Blu-ray player using your 2017 Samsung TV’s remote, so there’s one less remote to get lost.

Top customer reviews

I've only owned this player for a week, and have watched 2 UHD movies on my 75 inch sony 4K TV. It's my first UHD player, and the picture is what I would expect...clearer than normal Blu-Ray. That's especially noticeable in small details like lettering and distant people in a scene. But I'd expect that from any UHD play. So I can only pick nits with the operation of the player. Being the 2017 version I expected minor annoyances to be ironed out, but:

First, there is no indicator on the front to know if the unit is powered on or off. The only Power light is on top, which you can only see standing above the player. Not smart. Maybe I'll mount a mirror up there!

Next, I looked in vain for an on screen display of play time on a DVD, like minutes into the movie and minutes remaining. None to be found. My previous players all had that feature.

Also, there are apparently some feature that can only be used with a Samsung TV. There is a "123" button on the remote, for example, that seems to have no function in my setup. Too bad other TV's can't take advantage of whatever those special features are.

Finally: As I said, it's my first UHD player. HDMI2 cable is not just recommended...its mandatory for a UHD TV. Hooking it up with my old HDMI cable resulted in a "no input detected" message on my TV. GIven that, including an HDMI2 cable would have been nice for those wanting to unpack it and immediatley hook it up.

Still, it worked out of the box, was easy to set up and delivers UHD resolution so I can't ding it more than one star. If I find other issue I'll revisit this review.

Update 1: To see the time into or remaining on a DVD, hit the Pause/Resume button. That calls up a banner that takes up about 1/4 of the top of the screen, but eventually times out.

Bought this Blu-ray player to go along with my Samsung tv (UN55KS8500) and the picture quality is amazing. Also does a great job upscaling normal blu-rays.

I wanted to address a couple issues brought up in the only other review for this unit. I can see the power light from the front at eye level easily its red when off green when on and second is info for the movie can be seen by hitting the tools button on the remote and selecting information from the top of the list. It shows all the timers also shows every bit of info for audio and video from the disk.

This is a great 4k player I hooked it up to my new 65" Samsung curved 4K TV and it sinked up right away and my smart remote from the TV programed itself automatically. Loads very fast and picture quality is great

Replacing older DVD. Works well, easy to operate.One thing that I didn't notice in specs and instruction was that DivX codec is not supported, even if DivX is listed in the table of supported file formats.I have library of movies ripped to AVI format and have to go back and change them to MP4. Which is a good thing - the sound and picture is much better. I knew, eventually will have to update files to newer format, this DVD player was my motivator. LOLHopefully I don't have to change the format for few year as I am sure new one will come around.Update - after using a week, it is easy to setup, can create shortcuts to main screen. When watching movies from DLNA, player remembers where watching stopped and can resume next time it is turned on - love it option as it was not available on any other DVD player.

I had the first Samsung 4K player they came out with and it lasted a month or two. Have been waiting for the 2017 version and it works great. So much better actually than the previous version, I honestly believe this version has better image and sound. It's great. This combined with 7.1/2 surround sound and wow, what a movie experience.